8th Playable Character Possible?! (Updating!)

[Vehek]

Using Geiger's SNES9x, it looks like I actually have 16,777,215 in gold. This is from a game where the new gold location hasn't been initialized.
Before changing the value at 29981, it showed 65535.

[Mauron]

Did you adjust the load screen code to reflect the new value through Temporal Flux?

Originally that area is all FFs, which is what you're seeing.

[Vehek]

I adjusted the load screen, but that was from an old save.

[justin3009]

I never had that issue.  Whenever I tried loading from an old save, it just dind't load.  Black screen of death =/

[Shinrin]

Using Geiger's SNES9x, it looks like I actually have 16,777,215 in gold. This is from a game where the new gold location hasn't been initialized.
Before changing the value at 29981, it showed 65535.

Now you can fix that broken map! and still have over 6 million gold left XD

[Vehek]

$C2/F149 B9 00 00    LDA $0000,y[$7E:2C53]   A:7E03 X:0000 Y:2C53 P:envmxdiZc
Where does it get that Y value from? If we could solve that, the gold problem in shops would be fixed.

I did some ASM hacking and made a special case for the 8th character's tech list in battle.

[justin3009]

I had something like that once, but every tech kept rerouting to Crono using them xD

[Vehek]

Can't remember all the details of what I was trying to do right now, but I tried seeing when it loads tech data from C214B.
It actually loads starting from C213F, and it turns out normal attacks are also made using the same code.
It looks like the 8th character's attack is actually Provoke. (78/0C = 0A).
$C1/D5EF BF 3F 21 CC LDA $CC213F,x[$CC:21B7] A:0000 X:0078 Y:0000 P:envMxdiZc

[justin3009]

Well that's interesting O_o

[justin3009]

Double post.  he's correct, I altered provoke to have an attack power and 8th char now does damage!

[Mauron]

Sweet. With that discovery we're one huge step closer to making this work.

Does anyone know where the code for button responses is stored?

[Vehek]

So far, I've only been able to get the 8th character's attack to work when I have Marle in my party.

[Vehek]

Double post, but I went and searched for 532C and found the pointer for the shop's gold at 3FC98B.
Edit-Damn, it still reads from 7E2C53 when it updates the amount of gold it shows.

[justin3009]

Issue listing (There maybe more...)
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1) Techs (Somewhat fixed)

2) MAIN Menu Exchange (Working on it)

3) Weapon = Armor (Not sure)

4) Attack = Provoke (easily fixed?)

5) A certain level destroys his/her stats and completely nulls them.

6) If your running around on the map, and have 8th character in party, then switch it for someone else, it'll run off map forever.

7) If you switch the 8th char into slot 1, you won't be able to move, even if you switch back.

Since the 8th character patch, you cannot use the 6 letter names as I think some data was misscopied or something...If you try to add the 6th letter on anyone's name, it'll bump over to the next PC and copy the letter over that.

[Vehek]

After a bunch of following the code around, I managed to get the 8th character to load in the menu.
It's not working very well yet, but it's showing up in the menu.

I changed the value at 02F3FF to 00 and 02F400 to 1A.